What are your best tips for Black Friday shopping? (Please include a link if it's relevant.)

Don’t shop. Seriously. It’s not even Black Friday anymore, it’s morphed into Black Thursday. We’ve never participated. That long weekend was always about family and sleeping in and being lazy. Since my immediate family lives in Europe, I have to mail their gifts before Thanksgiving (it’s a long way from Hawaii to Germany), which in turn means I’m usually done shopping by Black Friday.